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Lucas Pottersky
Asked: 2010-10-31 09:29:13 +0800 CST

How to build mainline kernel and make it show up on GRUB?

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After successfully compiling and building my mainline Kernel (2.6.32.25) under my Ubuntu 10.04 with these headers I was wondering: how to make this kernel on startup, so I can choose which one to boot?

I have GRUB2 (grup-install -v says: 'GNU GRUB 0.97') installed.

I tried this:

sudo make install

And got:

luky@ubuntu1004:/usr/src/linux-2.6.32.25$ sudo make install
sh /usr/src/linux-2.6.32.25/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 2.6.32.25 arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
  System.map "/boot"

Here's my /boot folder:

luky@ubuntu1004:/boot$ ls
abi-2.6.32-24-generic         System.map-2.6.32-24-generic
config-2.6.32-24-generic      System.map-2.6.32.25
config-2.6.32.25              vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-24-generic
grub                          vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic
initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32.25
memtest86+.bin

I would NOT like to have to manually change GRUB's config files.

10.04 compiling kernel build

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Well, after all what solved my problem was: install the grub-pc package. This will replace the default one shipped with Ubuntu 10.04.

    I'm on a PC, so I guess that's fine.

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  2. I am assuming that you have grub2 installed because you are running 10.04, rather than grub legacy. You will need to update grub following the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

    It should be a simple: sudo update-grub

    This should check for new kernels and make grub entries from which you should be able to boot.

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  3. The kernels from that location are meant to be installed, not built yourself. They already have everything needed in their packaging to appear in grub, etc.

    To build a mainline kernel and still get a proper .deb package, see the instructions here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild

    That will guide you through the build prerequisites, how to transfer the build-time configs, and generate the package. If you don't need to change configurations, see http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/ for pre-built mainline kernels.

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  4. To build and install kernel in ubuntu or any debian based system for that matter its best to use makepkg istead of the usual make, make modules_install ....

    makepkg --initrd linux-image linux-headers warning: this might throw a permission error some times

    This creates a couple of .deb files in the parent directory which can be installed like any other .deb file.Do not worry about grub,it will configure itself;if using burg you must run "sudo update-burg".This will also ensure that the initrd file is properly generated

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